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Actually there were a couple of other things I wanted to note in my last dumb post but I forgot.

The discussion about the Bugster virus evolving to get stronger in response to the CR's work makes me wonder if at some point they'll get strong enough that the immunity granted by the candidate operation will no longer protect the Riders. One of them getting infected could make for an interesting story at some point, maybe.

Another thing, though not actually that much about this episode, but. They have mentioned how the Proto Gashats damage your body, Kuroto even stated last episode that his body was doomed to die early anyway because he used PMAX too much. This of course raises the question of how long Taiga's stint in the CR using Proto Bang Bang Shooting was. One can assume it's probably why he has the white streaks in his hair now. I also only recently remembered one of Graphite's lines in episode 3--he called Taiga "a walking corpse." While it could just be Graphite being dramatic, now that we know this much, it raises the possibility of Taiga possibly being in a much worse condition than he appears to be. If he was dying, it would add an interesting (and kinda Zolda-ish) element to his character. And they just offed another Rider, so it could really happen. Probably not for a while knowing he has toys coming through February, but eh.

And another thing, to sort of tie things back to episode 12...man, I really was expecting Graphite having the Bugster Buckle to be relevant in some way, you know? Even if it was like, Kuroto killing him to get it or taking it from his corpse...somehow. But nah, he just...pulls it out. Ok, I guess. Hopefully they explain it.